Russia : experiment with a people

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Title:

Author:

Service, Robert.

ISBN:

9780674012059

Personal Author:

Service, Robert.

Publication Information:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.

Physical Description:

x, 406 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Originally published: London : Macmillan, 2002.

Contents:

1. The Project of Reform -- 1. For a New Russia -- 2. What is Russia? -- 3. Who are the Russians? -- 4. Public Images, 1800-1991 -- 5. Soviet Legacies -- 2. Power and the Kremlin -- 6. The New Russian State -- 7. Popular Opinion -- 8. Masters of Red Square -- 9. Economising on Reform -- 10. Bloodbath in Chechnya -- 11. Russia in the World -- 3. Persuading Russia -- 12. Official Transmission -- 13. Symbols for Russia -- 14. Understating the Case -- 15. The Politics of Ideas -- 16. Culture for the Nation -- 4. In the Russian Depths -- 17. Federation and the Regions -- 18. Russian Town, Russian Village -- 19. Class and the 'New Russians' -- 20. A Society Disclosed -- 21. Russia in Private -- 22. Future Uncertain.

Subject Term:

Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)

Geographic Term:

Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-

Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-

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Summary

Since the fall of communism, Russia has witnessed a dramatic struggle between old and new, continuity and change. Corruption and violence have plagued society. Most people have benefited little from the new capitalist order. But positive changes are evident. Russians can speak and act more freely in a state that no longer intrudes on their privacy. They are able to travel abroad, enjoy unprecedented access to information from around the world, and organize and campaign for improvement in their living conditions. the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 to the present. He paints a fascinating picture of a people in metamorphosis. In wide-ranging discussions on topics from Kremlin politics to rock music and macroeconomics to contemporary poetry, Service takes us inside to witness the changes from both the top down and the bottom up. He examines the reforms of the Yeltsin and Putin administrations in the context of the complex communist legacy, deftly interweaving political history, intellectual thought, and popular consciousness to illuminate the real difficulties Russia has faced on its rocky path to reform. a fundamental reshaping of their society, and the results will prove of vital importance to the global community. This is a guide to their recent remarkable joirney.